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I just watched this for like, the tenth time. If you haven't seen it, treat yourself. It's a teen comedy, but an incredibly witty one; it's not a romance like 10 things I hate about you although there is a romance in there.
It's an absolute showstopping performance from Emma Stone in her first leading role. She totally makes the film, she takes a great part and wrings its neck. No-one who saw that film back in 2010 would have been surprised that she got a Best Actress Oscar before she was 30 and another one before she was 35. (She should have got one for Easy A, but Black Swan was an 'art film' and the Academy is always a sucker for art films.)
I really should get around to watching La la land and Poor things!
Fabulous turns by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as her parents, BTW. Every bit as good as Alison Janney and JK Simmons in Juno.
Also features a great performance by Amanda Bynes. I feel so bad for her now.
The pencil sharpening scene 😂
“Sharpenin some pencils? Yea? Sharpenin em good? 😂😂
Ooh so sharp!
Sharp sharp sharp!
Her last performance before she lost her marbles.
His, HIS plan 🙌🏽
Capital H!
Same.
I love the way Thomas Hayden Church delivers the line, “I don’t know what it is about her… I hate her?”
"Why does it matter?"
"Since everyone everywhere starting putting everything on the Internet. I don't know what's your generation's obsession with posting everything online, but I can assure you they're not all diamonds. 'Roman bought a Coke Zero at the gas station and is having an okay day. Raise the roof.' Who gives a rat's ass?"
"He bought a Coke Zero AGAIN?! That Roman, so incorrigible!"
Don’t forget tomorrow’s Earth Day.
It literally is, depending on what side of the Atlantic you're on right now
Every day is Earth Day when you live on Earth
"I wanted to be cheering along with the rest of the class." "I won't tell anyone." "I'll deny it if you do."
The way he says "Ashton Koo-cher" is so funny to me
“I’m adopted”
“WHAT?! Who told you that?”
🤣
The parents are one of the best parts of the movie.
“Your father is as straight as they come. A little too straight, if you know what I mean.”
The best.
“I had a horrible reputation and people said awful things about me … because I was a slut. I slept with a whole bunch of people, a slew, a heap, a peck, mostly guys …”
That the above is a really sweet mother daughter conversation is a testament to how well written and acted the movie is
"I used to be able to get my legs over my head...." "Oh my gawd, Mom! Enough"
I dunno. I'm about to be 45.
I can still get my legs behind my head. And I'm a guy.
Ever since this movie I strive to be a fraction as cool as either of them. I know I’ll never be Tucci cool, but a man can dream.
“spell it with your peas!”
He is the coolest isnt he?
Can anyone be Tucci cool?
And then she shows how she could put her legs behind her head. This movie is amazing. I wish they were my parents.
"I used to date a homosexual."
"Please tell me you didn't marry and have children with him."
“ Hey, no judgment. All God's children. It's fine. I was gay once...for a while. No big deal. We all do it. It's okay.”
The bucket list, the bucket list!!
Let's Bucket List this bitch
What's great about that line is that there's absolutely no way to know what the hell she's talking about, you can't even infer anything! WHY is he too straight? What does she want him to do?!
Penis, she's talking about his penis.
🍆
Poundtown
Serious question because I’m not American.. but what did that mean? Love the movie but this one always went over my head.
It’s open to interpretation, which is part of the joke. The line leaves it up to the viewer’s imagination as to exactly what kind of freaky sexual act the mom wants the dad to perform. It’s not a reference to anything specific.
“Listen, sometimes when a man and a woman love each other very much like your mother and I used to…”
‘Where are you from originally?’ As he acts like he’s smoking a pea.
Stanley Tucci is a treasure
The first movie I remember seeing with Stanley Tucci was “Undercover Blues”. He plays a low-life mugger who accidentally runs afoul of two CIA agents (Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner); he becomes obsessed with killing them and it’s absolutely hilarious. I’ve been a fan of Tucci ever since
Morty!
MUERTE!!! I kill you!!!
MEANS DEATH!
My wife and I have probably watched that film a hundred times. It’s so cheesy it’s great. Tucci smashed that role.
This is the best quote in the whole film. The look his kid gives him is gold
Just watched Big Night awesome film!
Stanley Tucci came to our house for my birthday party once. He's my Uncle's good friend, so he was tagging along because they both had to go do some sort of work. My mother asked him to put his coat on the bed in the guest room and he says, "Oh, you don't have a coat rack?" and gives a tsk tsk. He was on his phone the entire time except for dinner. Where the conversation went from my life and birthday, becoming a year older, to Stanley Tucci and his "new play at some obscure and 'hole-in-the-wall' theatre in Pasedena." Everyone just listened, but uncomfortably. I was pretty upset, but presents were about to be opened, so I tolerated Tucci Hour. When I was opening presents, Stan just sat with his legs crossed, and his hands on his knees, perched up watching me open presents. He kept chuckling every time I opened a present, as if I were a cute child (I was was 20 at the time.) I got tired of it and asked if there was a problem. He said, "No, no. chuckles keep going." So, yeah, that's my story. It's not much, but he was an asshole the whole time. Once the party was over, everyone said happy birthday again to me and left. Stan mockingly shook my hand wishing me a happy birthday. He wasn't serious at all about it and I am pretty sure he was making fun of my family members.
As I read this my eyes kept skipping ahead looking for the words "electrical infetterence".
"Is everything all right? It sounds like you're having sex in here, which I know can't be true due to the fact that you have a homosexual boyfriend."
This movie is insanely quotable.
This whole scene is just one banger line after another.
https://youtu.be/kWYw-RVsz5Y
Spell it with your peas!! Love that movie
THIS is what immediately comes to mind. I laugh just thinking about it.
I love my mom, but I would have loved if Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson were my parents, or even my aunt and uncle. Love them.
Yeah, that's one of my favourite lines as well. I spit my popcorn out!
Ooo ooo! Spell it with your peas!
I love the principal’s “ if I keep the boys off the pipe, and the girls off the pole, I get a bonus.”
Malcolm McDowell as the principal is such weird but also very inspired casting.
They translated it so well to german. Basically he says: If i keep the boys away from the blue light and the girls from the red light, i get a Bonus.
I know red light means prostitution. What does blue light mean?
Police im guessing
Yes Police.
If I’m not mistaken, some counties use blue light fixtures in public bathrooms to discourage intravenous drug use. The blue light makes it so that veins can’t be located.
Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as her parents are absolutely awesome!
My favorite line in the movie
So good. They are two of the best parents depicted on film. Non-judgmental, supportive, but not overly pushy with their support, trusting, and loving. Add on top the grade-A wit and baby, you got a stew going!
And what's good is that when she actually needs emotional advice from them, they drop the 'joke' act they normally have and give her the solid emotional support she needs. Her mum especially talking about how she was slut-shamed herself but came out of it OK and how she knows Olive will too, because she's even more well-rounded.
I also liked the fact that they didn't treat her having an adopted sibling as weird, and in fact there's fan theories that both Olive and her brother are adopted, which would make sense as well. I liked that they just seemed like a normal, loving family.
Slam. WHAT? OH MY GOD! Who TOLD you?!
I definitely took them to both be adopted, but I guess it's not as explicit with Olive.
There’s still plenty of meat on that bone
I put JK Simmons and Allison Janney as the parents from Juno in the running
Cady's parents in the OG Mean Girls are also pretty great, if not a bit naïve.
I thought for sure this was going to be the adoption line, but really it could be anything those two say.
I can never hear “All God’s children” without thinking of this.
"who told you?!. Guys we were gonna sit down as a family"
I say “no judgment, all god’s children, it’s fine” to literally anything.
The Tooch is loose
"Let's Bucket List this bitch!"
T
Think British
Agreed completely. They are one of my favorite parts of an already pretty stacked cast!
“Big tits.”
“That’s my identifier?”
“…”
“YES!”
I found her friend to be so beautiful.
Her in Phil of the Future helped guide me as a young pubescent child.
Potential Breakup Song still slaps. Also, Phil of the Future.
I got a pocket got a pocketful of sunshine
I got a...I got a...I got a...
TAKE ME AWAYYYYYY
A SECRET PLAAAAAAAAACE
She’s in the shower with a shampoo Mohawk… I got a pocket got a pocket full of sunshine…